15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
RECONFIGURABLE ROBUST FAULT-TOLERANT CONTROL AND STATE ESTIMATION
Stoyan Kanev* Michel Verhaegen*
* University of Twente, The Netherlands

In this paper reconfigurable robust Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) and Kalman filter (KF) are developed for discrete-time systems subjected to faults, explicitly taking into account uncertainty both in the model of the system and in the estimated faults from the fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) part. For each separate actuator (sensor) with which the system is robustly stabilizable (detectable), a robust LQR gain (robust KF gain) is designed. After each occurrence of faults, a reconfiguration of the LQR (KF) is performed by an ppropriate mixing of the pre-designed gains, resulting in the optimal obust LQR (KF) for the current faulty system. The approach is computationally attractive and can handle sensor, actuator and component faults. The approach is tested on an industrial actuator benchmark model.
Keywords: fault-tolerant systems, fault tolerance, robust control, LQR control, Kalman filters
Session slot T-Fr-A10: Fault Tolerant Control Issues/Area code 7e : Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes